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New terminal for Indonesian capital’s crowded airport

  Jakarta/ AFP The main airport serving the Indonesian capital Jakarta has opened a new terminal that will allow the overcrowded aviation hub to handle tens of millions more passengers a year. Air passenger numbers are soaring in Indonesia, the world’s biggest archipelago nation and Southeast Asia’s top economy, as a growing middle class increasingly chooses to fly but ageing ...

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Hong Kong property gets hotter

  Bloomberg Hong Kong real estate shares haven’t been this hot since the city’s last housing bubble burst almost two decades ago. The industry’s benchmark equity gauge has surged 37 percent from this year’s low in January, climbing to the highest level versus Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index in 19 years on July 29. The last time property companies performed ...

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Sun Hung Kai beats expectations with offer for Hong Kong site

  Bloomberg Hong Kong’s biggest developer, Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd., outbid 10 other companies with a HK$2.4 billion ($305 million) offer for a site, as builders selectively add to their land banks. The price for the land offered by the government in the New Territories district works out to about HK$5,450 per square foot of saleable area, according to ...

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